An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

Sang Wu straightened up in astonishment, "What did you say?"

"I have been feeling unwell since I came back from your place yesterday. I felt sleepy this morning and have not woken up yet. My cousin is not here, and the doctor I hired said that I was poisoned."

"I'll go to the palace to ask for the imperial physician." Sang Wu still knew what to focus on.

But she was stopped by Sang Ling. "I have sent someone." She looked up, trying to suppress the anger in her heart, "Aunt must have been harmed by Ma Jijun. You are in the middle of it, you must know the origin of the discord between them." She didn't believe that Sang Wu, a politician who held the position of Taiwei, couldn't understand these things at home, so she clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and all the dust in her heart, originally intended to never mention the past, once again bloody in front of this father, "When I was young, I was fat and ugly, and my face had acne, all of which were caused by her. She knew that I was ill, but she kept coaxing and feeding me. When I was thirteen, I invited the Cao family to come to my house, just to let them ridicule me in person-" She stopped with one sentence, she wanted to continue, that poor and inferior little girl, only thirteen years old, committed suicide by burning charcoal in the house alone.

At this moment, even she couldn't tell whether the sadness from the bottom of her heart was due to her excessive empathy and thus endless pain, or whether the original owner had always existed in her body, praying to release all the grievances suffered in the past through her soul.

"My mother..." She then softened her tone, "If she were still alive, perhaps I wouldn't have to suffer so much. Fortunately, I still have an aunt, and my aunt happens to be at odds with my stepmother..."

"A Ling." Sang Wu interrupted her.

Sang Ling couldn't help but look at him coldly.

"In the past, adults' affairs were complicated and cumbersome, and even now, it's hard to tell who is right and who is wrong..."

"So?" She just felt funny. Sang Wu's current expression was like someone she had seen not long ago. Oh, the grandfather of the Nie family, the head of the family, why did he always like to stir up trouble? She simply put her disdainful attitude on her face, "So she can poison a thirteen-year-old child, and now she poisons her own sister-in-law? That's your own sister..." She wanted to continue, but Sang Wu took a deep breath and interrupted again, "A Ling, don't worry about what's going on here. I'll go to Gao's house with you now."

From beginning to end, he never denied whether Ma poisoned him or not, nor did he look Sang Ling in the eye.

Sang Ling couldn't help but be stunned. Looking at his attitude, her sixth sense suddenly told her that the person in front of her might know the whole story.

"You know?" She thought it was ridiculous. "Do you know that Ma Jijun poisoned my aunt?"

Sang Wu didn't answer her.

The answer seemed to be clearly revealed before her eyes. She stood up, holding the table, and was about to ask about the details, only to see Sang Wu also stand up, "The most urgent thing is to save your aunt."

"Why?" She no longer cared about anything else, and the tears that surged out gathered at her chin.

"A Ling." Sang Wu finally turned around and looked at her, and was also helpless. "Don't mention these anymore, follow me to Gao's house." After saying that, he grabbed her hand, but she shook it off. "If you don't explain the matter clearly today, I will make it clear even if I die with Ma Jijun."

Sang Ling looked so strange, as if she had become a different person. Even though Sang Wu knew that she would inevitably have a temper after marrying into a wealthy family, he didn't expect her to change to this extent, to the point that he didn't even know how to suppress her.

The room was silent for a moment. Sang Wu swallowed several times, looked around, and waved his hand to dismiss the servants on both sides of the room. Sang Ling nodded, and Wei Chu and Xiao Yuanxing also went out. Even so, her father lowered his voice, "Your mother - your stepmother -" he sighed, "Dad committed some crimes in the court, she knew about it, and the Ma family also -"

Although the sentence was fragmented, Sang Ling understood it immediately. He suddenly remembered what Nie Ce said during the epidemic: officials protect each other, officials and businessmen collude... Even the Sang family cannot escape blame.

So, did Sang Wu do something wrong that caused Ma Shi, or even the entire Ma family, to be controlled?

"Then why did you poison your aunt?"

Even if Ma had some grudge against my aunt, she wouldn't have gone to the extent of poisoning her immediately.

Sang Wu had already lowered his head. A middle-aged man of decent stature lowered his head in front of his daughter. "Your aunt also knew about this. She suggested to me that I divorce Ma that day."

"So Ma knew about it and poisoned my aunt?" She didn't even need to wait for Sang Wu to finish the story, she could already explain it herself, "Did you know about it when she poisoned me?"

"I don't know, it's just a guess." Sang Wu's denial came quickly.

Sang Ling felt that her father's every move was particularly funny. She shook her head, raised her head and quickly wiped away the tears on her face, and said with emotion, "What a coward."